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Apbil 20, 1020 



The Florists^ Review 



29 



James T. Copas. 



James T. Copas, of Salida, Colo., died 

 Wednesday night, April 21, at the age of 

 43 years. His death resulted from pneu- 

 monia, which was caused by exposure 

 suffered while helping a stranger caught 

 in a blizzard near Husted, Colo. 



Mr. Copas, his wife, their 10-year-old 

 •daughter and a friend started early 

 Saturday morning, April 17, to go by 

 automobile from Salida to Denver. Near 

 Husted the party was caught in the bliz- 

 zard. A short distance behind them was 

 a Ford sedan car, in which were a man, 

 ill with asthma, his wife and two chil- 

 dren. Mr. Copas decided to turn 

 around, but after working almost an 

 hour to help turn the Ford car around, 

 he was too weak to turn his own. For 

 nearly fifty hours, until the following 

 Monday afternoon, Mr. Copas and his 

 party had to stay in their automobile, 

 almost covered by the drifting snow. 

 They had only one sandwich apiece to 

 eat and the water in their canteen had 

 frozen. When the storm broke, they 

 fought their way one-quarter of a mile 

 to a farm house, where Mr. Copas fell 

 unconscious; both of his feet were 

 frozen. In a state of semiconsciousness 

 he was carried to Colorado Springs in a 

 wagon and later taken to his home in 

 Salida. 



Mr. Copas was at one time in business 

 in Elyria, O. For three years he worked 

 for the Espelin Floral Co., Fort Collins, 

 Cole, and then for a while he was pri- 

 vate gardener for Verner Z. Eeed, of 

 Denver. He bought the establishment 

 at Salida last fall. 



John Giles. 



John Giles, formerly of Hoskins & 

 Giles, Eeading, Pa., died during the 

 week of April 18. Mr. Giles retired 

 from business several years ago. His 

 son, Stanley Giles, is a prominent florist 

 of Reading. Phil. 



Joseph H. Campbell. 



Joseph H. Campbell died at his home 

 in Ambler, Pa., during the week of April 

 18. Mr. Campbell, who was before his 

 retirement a grower at 3601 German- 

 town avenue, Philadelphia, is survived 

 by four sons, all famed in flowers. 



Phil. 

 S. C. Nash. 



S. C. Nash, Clifton, N. J., died at his 

 home during the week of April 18, at 

 the age sf 79 years. Mr. Nash was an 

 old-time grower and one of the early 

 shippers of American Beauty roses to 

 the New York market. J. H. P. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Market conditions throughout last 

 week were, on the whole, fairly good. 

 The supply of cut flowers of all kinds 

 was quite heavy, and although move- 

 ment at times was sluggish, little stock 

 went to waste. The demand was occa- 

 sionally spasmodic, with hand-to-mouth 

 buying strongly in evidence, as it 

 usually is when there is no scarcity in 

 any line. Bulbous flowers arrived daily 

 in large quantities and continue to ar- 



rive, with little prospect of an early 

 decrease. 



At the beginning of this week the 

 market was well supplied with flowers 

 of all kinds and the demand was abojit 

 what is ordinarily expected at the 

 opening of a week. Eoses are fairly 

 plentiful, excepting American Beauty, 

 which in the special grades is rather 

 light in supply. In hybrid teas all 

 grades are plentiful, with splendid stock 

 among the specials. The weather for 

 many days has been favorable to roses, 

 day temperatures being not so high as 

 they ordinarily are at this season and 

 nights quite cool. 



Carnations are plentiful and move 

 well. The price range at the beginning 

 of the week was $3 to $6 per hundred. 

 The latter figure, of course, was for 

 selected stock and fancy varieties. 



There is a good supply of orchids, 

 cattleyas bringing from $25 to $75 per 

 hundred, with especially large and per- 

 fect flowers a little more. Gardenias 

 continue to arrive in quantities rather 

 more than the market can absorb, and 

 when the best are moved at $3 per dozen 

 the balance moves at prices down to $5 

 per hundred. 



Easter lilies are in abundance, but 

 seem to clear out fairly well at 10 cents 

 to 15 cents per flower and bud. Lily of 

 the valley is also in good supply and 

 of excellent quality, at the general price 

 range of $2 to $8 per hundred, the lat- 

 ter for extra selected stock. 



Sweet peas are especially plentiful 

 and arrive in a variety of gradings, 

 with stems three inches to fourteen 

 inches long. The best bring $4 per bun- 

 dled sprays; the rest go at prices down 

 to 50 cents per hundred sprays. The 

 weather is quite favorable to the sweet 

 pea cut. 



The supply of miscellaneous flowers 

 continues heavy and embraces a great 

 variety. Quantities of cut sprays of 

 forsythia are this week added to the 

 list of arrivals. Snapdragons, lupines, 

 delphiniums, myosotis, wallflowers, ca- 

 lendulas, Spanish iris, stocks, pansies, 

 daisies, gypsophilas, primroses,* mig- 

 nonette and a small quantity of the 

 trailing arbutus make up the choice in 

 m.iscellaneous flowers. 



The New Market. 



The new flower market in the old 

 Siegel-Cooper building. Sixth avenue 

 and West Eighteenth street, opened 

 Monday morning, April 26. While some 

 of the booth holders were a little behind 

 as regards the completion of their quar- 

 ters, few inconveniences were met with. 

 Among the visitors early in the day 

 was John I. Raynor, who retired from 

 the wholesale business some years ago. 

 Mr. E^ynor expressed himself as pleased 

 at the beginning of what he believed 

 tp be a concentration of wholesale in- 

 tcsts, something which, he said, ought 

 to have happened years ago. The 

 facilities for the receipt of shipments 

 proved to be all that was expected and 

 the temporary telephone service was as 

 good as could have been hoped. In a 

 week or so everything promises to be 

 in good shape. At the quarters of the 

 S. A. F., on the mezzanine floor, there 

 were many visitors during the day, 

 although housing arrangements are nec- 

 essarily yet incomplete. Eoman J. 

 Irwin, on the same floor, who is nearly 

 set to rights, also had his share of vis- 

 itors. 



Various Notes. 



The death last week of S. C. Nash, 



Clifton, N. J., is recorded in this week's 

 obituary column. 



The Eosary furnished most of the dec- 

 orations at the Tower-Whitney wedding 

 last week. Lilies were used in great 

 profusion. 



Tuesday, April 20, Joseph S-. Fenrich 

 was receiving congratulations upon the 

 arrival of a daughter at his home. 



Herman Schwarz, Central Park, L. I., 

 has given the name Siren to his new 

 carnation, which was awarded a silver 

 medal at the recent international flower 

 show. 



George V. Nash is the lecturer at the 

 museum building. New York Botanical 

 Garden, Bronx Park, Saturday after- 

 noon, May 1, his subject being, "Flow- 

 ers for the Home Garden." J. H. P. 



NEW MAGNOLIA FACTORY. 



The use of magnolia leaves in the 

 trade has become so large that the Ove 

 Gnatt Co., at La Porte, Ind., is erecting 

 a "factory" plant at Evergreen, Ala., 

 for the principal purpose of "prepar- 

 ing" magnolias. The Gnatt corporation 

 has been putting up the leaves at its 

 factory at La Porte, Ind., but with the 

 present volume of business sees a large 

 economy and the prospect for a consid- 

 erable further increase in sales by go- 

 ing close to the source of raw material 

 to do the work of perpetuating. In the 

 item of transportation charges alone it 

 will make a saving, especially to the 

 eastern and southeastern trade. No care 

 or expense is being spared to make the 

 new establishment thoroughly up-to- 

 date, according to Fred Henoch, who 

 authorizes the announcement of the 

 company's plans. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There has been good business since 

 last report, but the dfemand has not 

 been strong enough to create anything 

 resembling a shortage or to advance 

 prices to more than a slight extent. 

 Now and then a wholesaler has been 

 able to close for the day with his ice- 

 boxes practically empty, but the condi- 

 tions scarcely can be said to have been 

 general, and with an occasional excep- 

 tion it has been possible to find all the 

 flowers wanted, of the quality wanted, 

 at a price the buyer could afford to 

 pay. Shipping has been, if anything, 

 more active than city business, but 

 shipping still is conducted under diflS- 

 culties because of the express service. 

 The embargoes have been removed in so 

 far as concerns perishable stock, but 

 pickup service is limited to 2 p. m. 

 Many buyers failed to get their orders 

 into the wholesalers' hands in time for 

 the last pickup, with the result that the 

 wholesaler has to get his boxes to the 

 station the best way he may. It will 

 be a material help if buyers will re- 

 member the short hours and get their 

 orders in before noon, as far as they 

 can. 



Taking the stock as a whole, flowers 

 are of excellent quality. There are 

 roses of so good a character that it 

 would be difficult to say in what man- 

 ner they fall short of perfection, and 

 carnations also average up unusually 

 well for the season. One scarcely can 

 say as much of the sweet peas, many of 

 which are not good, although there are 

 large quantities of first-class stock in 

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